Automated deployment with Maven and friends - going the whole nine yards

Automating your build process with Continuous Integration is certainly a great idea, but why stop there? Why not go the whole nine yards and automate the deployment process as well? Staging and production deployments are typically more complicated and more involved than a simple development deployment, but doing them by hand can be time-consuming, tricky and error-prone. Indeed, turning your staging and production deployments into a one-click affair has a lot going for it.

How to integrate your build and deployment strategy with JIRA’s release management feature
Subversion tagging strategies, and automatic Subversion tagging
How to use a Maven repository manager to deploy and archive artifacts,
How to use to automate the release process, and integrating Maven with JIRA and Bamboo
How to automate deployment to different platforms (integration, staging, production, and so on)
Handling automated redeployments and roll-backs
How to set up automatic smoke tests
How to handle security and traceability issue

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